Steve Lopez, Author . Harcourt $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-100284-9
A smalltown Jersey cop working in the shadow of Atlantic City sees the job of his dreams turn into a violent nightmare in Lopez's latest, a smart, funny character study disguised as a murder mystery. The story begins when 50ish sheriff Albert...
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Steve Lopez, Author . Putnam $25.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-399-15506-2
Scurrying back to his office one day, Lopez, a columnist for the L.A. Times
, is stopped short by the ethereal strains of a violin. Searching for the sound, he spots a homeless man coaxing those beautiful sounds from a battered two-string violin....
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Steve Lopez, Author Penguin Books $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-023945-4
Journalist Lopez's first novel portrays a 14-year-old boy who gets caught up with drug dealers in the inner city of Philadelphia. (Oct.)
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Steve Lopez, Author Viking Books $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-85676-3
This hard-edged, stunning first novel is set on and around the corner of Third and Indiana in the ``Badlands'' of Philadelphia. Fourteen-year-old Gabriel Santoro has been assigned to this spot by a local drug king, Diablo, and it is here that the...
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Steve Lopez , Camino, $17.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-933822-31-0
The essays Lopez wrote for the Los Angeles Times about a Julliard-trained musician living on the streets of LA, later made into the film, The Soloist, are among the highlights in this collection of more than 90 previously published columns. "The...
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Steve Lopez, Author, Lopez, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $33 (384p) ISBN 978-0-15-100264-1
Expertly mixing Runyonesque characters with contemporary headlines, this follow-up to Lopez's solemn debut (Third and Indiana) is an unexpectedly funny tale of Philadelphia politics at the gritty street level. ADA Lisa Savitch, a fiery beauty, has...
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Steve Lopez, Author, William Hughes, Read by Blackstone Audiobooks $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-1522-3
Perhaps the fact that William Hughes is an accomplished musician and a political science professor allows him to slip so easily into both the voice of free-associating, schizophrenic, homeless musical prodigy Nathaniel Ayers, and the more...
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